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Hey, what is this?

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Honey, I shrunk the host.

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We're inside a PC right now.

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Do you know what all this stuff is?

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Who invented these components
and what makes it all work?

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If you want to find out,
play along with us on the Computer Bowl.

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It's a battle of wits on computer trivia,
the virtual bowl on the special edition

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of The Computer Chronicles.

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Only on CompuServe.

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Hi, I'm Stuart Chafay.

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Welcome to the 1995 Computer Bowl presented
by the Computer Museum of Boston.

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I'm here at the Computer Museum right
now in their new Network Planet exhibit,

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and this is one spectacular
example of a network.

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Thanks to fiber optic lines which are
connecting hundreds of computers scattered

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all over the country, we can see on this
one electronic display a representation

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of every single airplane
currently flying over the United

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States at this particular moment.

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Now for this year's Computer Bowl,
we have participants scattered all over the

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country for the first ever virtual bowl
using network technology to bring you a

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spectacular first time ever television event,
the Computer

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Bowl, the Net Generation.

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So on with the virtual bowl as we hand
off to the next location somewhere

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out there in cyberspace.

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Okay, Nicholas,
we'll keep the questions and I'll keep score.

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Let's begin.

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Okay, Chris, the first one really
defines the concept of trivia.

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According to the New York Times,
how many parking spaces are there in the

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garage at Bill Gates' new home?

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Catherine Clark, East Coast.

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Twelve.

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Oh, sorry, that's close.

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It's 20.

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Okay, here's some more real trivia.

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If you fly between Silicon Valley and Boston,
you probably know that there's only

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one or actually two nonstop
flights each day from Boston

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to San Jose or vice versa.

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They're both American Airlines flights.

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Can you give us either of
the two flight numbers?

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Joseph Alsup, East Coast.

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American 129.

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That's absolutely correct.

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And we should say before we do the next
one that we have Stuart Chiffay at the

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Computer Museum now with a special question.

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The Computer Museum has lots of famous
communications devices on display here.

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I'm holding one of them
behind my back right now.

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I'll show it to you in just a second.

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It was built in the early 1970s by a
famous personal computer pioneer, but

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it got him into a lot of trouble.

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The question is,
what is the device and who built it?

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Here it is.

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Blank, West Coast.

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It's a blue box and it was Steve Jobs.

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That's not correct.

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So we're going to ask the East Coast,
Katherine Clark.

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It's a blue box by Wozniak.

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That's correct.

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Okay, listening carefully.

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In last year's blockbuster movie,
Forrest Gump, the title character

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invests in a computer company.

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Carl Ledbetter, East Coast.

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Apple.

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That is correct.

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Jumped in early and guessed correctly.

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So the East Coast qualifies
for this bonus round.

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Listen carefully now.

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East Coast.

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This bonus round deals with the latest
book titles in today's computing field.

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Clifford Stoll is the well-known
author of The Cuckoo's Egg.

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He has just written a new book that takes
aim at the information superhighway.

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What is it called?

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You can consult.

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Silicon Snake Oil.

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That's, well, it's not quite right.

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Judges, will we award that one or not?

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No.

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Not quite.

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No, you left out Valley.

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Silicon Valley Snake Oil.

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So close.

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They're doing any better.

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Okay, part two of the bonus round.

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There's a new book about cognitive
science called Fluid Concepts

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and Creative Analogies.

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Who wrote that book?

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Okay, do we have an answer from the captain?

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Nick Negroponte.

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Oh, sorry, it's Douglas Hofstadter.

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Okay,
the third and final part of the bonus round.

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According to Publishers Weekly,
what general computing title is the

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current top seller today?

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Is it How Computers Work, the Internet
Navigator, or Internet Yellow Pages?

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How Computers Work, the Internet Navigator,
or Internet Yellow Pages?

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What is your answer?

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Internet Navigator.

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I'm sorry, no, it's the Internet Yellow Pages.

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What do the initials WWWW stand for?

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Andy Hertzfeldt, West Coast.

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We're on white web.

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No, I'm sorry, that's incorrect.

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I believe you interrupted,
so we're going to give the other

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side a chance to answer what?

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And let me repeat the question.

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Yeah, well, let's repeat the question for them.

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Okay, because Andy blew it by not
listening to the whole question.

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What do the initials WWWW
stand for on the Internet?

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Paul Gillan, East Coast.

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World Wide Web Worm.

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That is correct.

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That is correct.

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Okay, that's the end of the first round,
and the score is 60-10

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in favor of the East Coast.

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Okay, now once again,
here's Stuart Chiefe at the Computer Museum.

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This huge computer with all the
flashing lights over here is the

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famous Whirlwind Computer.

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It was built in 1951.

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The Whirlwind is famous for lots of
computing firsts, but one unique part of its

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history is the Whirlwind was
the first computer ever to be

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interviewed live on television.

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The question is, what is the name of
the newsman who entered the Whirlwind?

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It's Steve Plank, West Coast.

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Edward Armuro.

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Edward Armuro is correct.

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Okay, now we have a bonus round coming up,
and here's your qualifying question.

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Peter Norton is known for
pioneering the PC utility business.

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Today he does what?

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One, collect art.

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Two, climb mountains.

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Three, perform a circuit.

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Andy Hertzfeldt, West Coast.

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Collect art.

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That's correct.

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Okay, so the West Coast
qualifies for this bonus round.

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This bonus round is a potpourri
of three unrelated questions.

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Number one, what book by John Updike
features a college professor who

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contemplates writing a computer
program to prove the existence of God?

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What book by John Updike?

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Features a college professor who contemplates
writing a computer program to prove

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the existence of God.

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This is a tough one.

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Do we have an answer?

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Watership Down.

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No, I'm sorry.

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He may have been as
surprised by that as he was.

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The answer is Roger's version.

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Okay, part two of your bonus round now.

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In the 1970 movie Colossus, The Forbin Project,
what Northern California site

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was used for the filming?

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Was it the Exploratorium,
the Lawrence Hall of Science, or the

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San Rafael Civic Center?

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Science.

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The answer is Lawrence Hall of Science.

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That is correct.

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[...] ten points.

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Okay, number three in the bonus round.

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In 1960,
CBS used an IBM 7090 computer to predict the

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outcome of the presidential race.

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Was the computer correct?

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No.

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No, that is correct.

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The computer predicted that Nixon would win.

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Okay, Nicholas, our next question, please.

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Right,
the next one is not like the roulette table.

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It's not 50-50.

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Here we go.

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What interactive CD-ROM from Japan
takes you on a train ride through a

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mysterious world of...

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Steve Blank, West Coast.

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Gadget.

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Gadget is correct for ten points.

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We're going to get a scoring update now
to see how our two teams are fairing.

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So let's find out what we've
got for a total score.

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Ninety-sixty in favor of the East Coast.

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They're coming down.

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Nicholas.

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Okay.

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What famous computer
personalities email address was

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printed in the New Yorker in 1994?

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Paul Gellin, East Coast.

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Bill Gates.

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Bill Gates is correct for ten points.

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We've played two rounds so far,
and now panelists, if you're ready, Nicholas,

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would you give us our next question, please?

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Okay, it's a long one.

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Four well-known computer personalities,
David Packard, Gordon Moore, Paul Allen,

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and Mitch Kapor, recently pledged a
total of over four million dollars to a

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nonprofit organization,
unfortunately not the Media Lab, called SETI.

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What is the purpose of this organization?

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Andy Hertzfeld, West Coast.

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Search for extraterrestrial intelligence.

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Absolutely correct. Very good.

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Ten points.

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Okay, next.

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According to a spoof news release last year,
what famous institution was

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Microsoft rumored to be purchasing?

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Paul Gellin, East Coast.

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The Catholic Church.

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That's correct.

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Okay, we're moving right along.

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And now,
Stuart Chife has another question for us.

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This is a computer built out of
more than 10,000 Tinkertoy parts.

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It was built in the late 1970s by
Danny Hillis and Brian Silverman

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of Thinking Machines Corporation.

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This Tinkertoy computer was designed
to perform one specific task.

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The question is,
what was the computer built to do?

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Paul Gellin, East Coast.

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Tic-tac-toe.

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I went through soon.

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Play Tic-tac-toe is correct.

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[...]

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Thank you.

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[...]

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Back to me?

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Back to you, Nicholas.

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Okay, well, one of our judges can
really judge this one for sure.

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How much did Hewlett-Packard
pay for Apollo in 1989?

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Four... sorry, $476 million.

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I was actually going to let you guess.

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Paul Gellin, East Coast. $476 million.

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That is correct for 10 points.

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That was good.

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Panelists, we have a bonus round coming up.

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Nicholas will read your qualifying question.

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Listen carefully.

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Okay, what is the Library of
Congress two-letter prefix for books

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dealing with computer science?

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Is it Q-E-C-S or F-R?

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John Landry, East Coast.

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C-S.

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What was the answer again, please?

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C-S.

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C-S is incorrect.

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I'm sorry.

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The correct answer is Q-E.

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So we will go to another qualifying
question for the bonus round.

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Okay.

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What is the code name for Apple's System 8?

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D-Blank, West Coast.

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Copeland.

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Copeland is correct for 10 points.

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Any qualify for the bonus round, West Coast.

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All right, listen carefully.

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This three-part bonus round deals
with computer statistics, part one.

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For 10 points, according to the 1994-95
Computer Industry Almanac, what is the

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installed base of mainframe and
supercomputers in the world today?

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That's the total combination.

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Is it 50,000, 500,000, or 5 million?

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What is the total number of mainframe
and supercomputers in the world today?

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Is it 50,000, 500,000, or 5 million? 50,000.
50,000 is correct.

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Actually, 52,000.

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For 10 points, very good.

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All right, part two.

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What is the installed base of
many computers in the world?

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Is it 600,000, 6 million, or 60 million?

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How many mini computers in the world?
600,000, 6 million, or 60 million?

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I'm going to say 600.

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[...]

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Can we have your answer? 600,000.
600,000 is not correct.

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It is 6 million.

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Let's try part three now of this bonus round.

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What percent of the world's
computers are in the United States?

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Is it 43%, 63%, or 83%?

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What percent of the world's computers
are in the United States? 43%, 63%, or

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83%? 63%.

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I'm sorry.

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No, it's 43%.

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But you did get one out of the three correct.

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So the score is 130 to 120,
and that's in favor of the

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East Coast, I believe.

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That is correct.

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So they're hanging on by a very slim margin.

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Nicholas, on to our regular questions.

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Okay, it's tight, folks.

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Of the top 10 memory chip makers in 1994, only

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two were U.S. companies.

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One was Texas Instruments, who was the other?

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Two-blank West Coast.

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Micron.

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Micron is correct for 10 points.

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What year did Digital Equipment Corporation
ship the first PDP-8 mini computer?

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1965, 66, or 67?

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Catholic Park, East Coast. 65.
65 is correct for 10 points.

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Very good.

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I noticed Gordon was in the audience at
the West Coast, so he can confirm that.

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Okay, this is a long one, folks.

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The Annie Awards, A-N-N-I-E Awards,
are given each year for

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the best animated commercials.

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In 1994, the animated award went for
the first time to a computer-generated

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animated commercial for which company?

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You have to decide which company.

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Dow Chemical, Nike Shoes, or Coca-Cola.

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Andy Herzfeld, West Coast.

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Coca-Cola.

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Coca-Cola, yes, for their animated polar bears.

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Very good.

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Okay, we're going to end the round now
with the East, 140, and the West 140.

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Okay, it's time for the fourth and
final round of the Computer Bowl.

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Let's begin.

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Nicholas, would you start us off?

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Okay, Ray Tomlinson may not be a household
name, but he invented something that

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most computers know well.

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Which did he invent of the following?

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The at sign for email addresses,
the hole in the middle of CD

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-ROMs, or the blinking cursor?

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Paul Gellin, East Coast.

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The blinking cursor.

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No, I'm sorry, it's the at sign.

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The hole in the middle of CD-ROMs.

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The hole in the middle.

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Well, we couldn't stop you with the
hole in the middle of the CD-ROM.

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That's okay. Nicholas, next.

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It's the at sign.

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Okay.

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What brand of computer was used to create
the special effects for the movie...

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Three movies, Forrest Gump,
The Mask, and The Flintstone.

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Steve Blake, West Coast.

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Silicon Graphics.

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Silicon Graphics is absolutely correct.
10 points.

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It's unfair, that was written for Steve.

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Okay, two as yet unreleased software
packages are code named after locations

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on Interstate 57.

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What are the cities and software packages?

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Joe, Ossoff, East Coast.

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Cairo and Chicago.

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Yes, and the products, please.

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Windows NT and Windows 95.

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Judges, will we give that...

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Yes, we'll give that. That's close enough.

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Yes, it's Windows NT 4.
0, but I think that's fairly implicit.

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That's very good.

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And it's K-RO when you're out there,
by the way.

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We want to make that perfectly clear.

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Pay attention. This is a very long one, okay?

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Who said the following?

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And this is the quote.

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The basic idea of associative indexing
is a provision whereby any item may be

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caused at will to select immediately
and automatically another.

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Holy new forms and the pyschopedias
will appear ready-made with a mesh of

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associative trails running through them.

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Ready...

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Blank West Coast.

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Vannevar Bush.

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Very good. It's Vannevar Bush.

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That's a quote from his seminal paper,
as we may know, in the Atlantic Monthly in

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1945, where he essentially talked
about the concept of hypertext.

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Nicholas, before...

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Let me get a score update, because I heard
it in my ear. It didn't quite get...

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It's 150 for the East and 170 for the West.

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Okay, Nicholas.

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So, the dark horse has pulled ahead here.

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At the first West Coast computer fair
during the 1970s, Apple's co-founder, Steve

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Wozniak, played a prank by printing
and distributing 20,000 leaflets for

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a non-existent computer.

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Did he call it the...

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Andy Metzfeld, West Coast.

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The Zalter.

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That's correct, the Zalter. Very good.

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You should know, Andy.

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And it's your last chance to get some
more points. All at once, here's

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your qualifying question. Nicholas.

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Okay, this coming February,
the computer industry will celebrate the fifth

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anniversary of what famous...

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Sorry, I am very sorry. Well,
I announced I was dyslexic in my book, so...

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Paul Dillon, [...]

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The Mark I.

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I'm sorry, that's incorrect,
and you interrupted us, so

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we'll repeat the entire question.

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See if I can read it right
this time for the other side.

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This coming February, the computer industry
will celebrate the 50th anniversary

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of what famous early computer?

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Does anyone want to say this?
Okay, Steve Blank, West Coast.

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Eniac.

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Eniac is correct.

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Okay, so you qualify for the bonus round.

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This bonus round is all about
code names for software.

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Listen carefully. The questions are
courtesy of Michael Hyman, author of the

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upcoming book, P.C. Roadkill.

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There's a great title for you.

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Number one, for ten points, which of the
following is not a theme used for code

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names of OS2 releases?

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Mercedes numbers, boat types, or baseball
team names, which is not a theme used

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for code names of OS2 releases?

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Mercedes numbers, boat types,
or baseball team names?

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May we have your answer, please?

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Baseball team names.

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That's correct.
Baseball team names are not used. Ten points.

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All right, part two.
What was the code name for the Apple III?

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We're still in a bonus round here, so

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we're going to be talking to the team captain.

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Sarah.

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Sarah is correct. All right, for ten points.

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Part three, last part of the bonus round.
What were Go Corporation's code

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names for Penpoint?

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There are two. What were Go
Corporation's code names for Penpoint?

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I need an answer.

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Go, go, go.

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I'm sorry. Time is up.
The answer is Amstel and Rolling Rock.

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Okay. I'm told that that time is up.
That is the end of the game.

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